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The mercury rule writers also ignored mercury's special qualities.

I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients.

There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.

The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.

Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.

Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something.

It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.

My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didn't think that seeking the life of a freelance writer was very practical, you see. Of course, I was just as determined to do it.

We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.

I did several interesting jobs, working in restaurants, I worked at a lab rat farm, feeding and watering all these rats. Then I got a full-time job as a technical writer for a large scientific research laboratory.

I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.

Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.

Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia.

I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a book to get it published at nominal cost or free, and to have it on sale at booksellers like Amazon.com.

One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.

I hope to read a Harry Potter novel soon, to see what it's all about. I admit to being annoyed that many good light fantasy writers have had trouble getting published, in England and elsewhere, when it is obvious the readers were waiting for us all along.

The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.

I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.

All the writers and producers around us that gave us the environment where we could play. They were able to provide us with a place where we could take chances to play with things, go against the grain and do things that people don't always do.